# Mandarin

Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:

## Language

* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Standard Chinese as spoken in Taiwan
* Old Mandarin or Early Mandarin was the speech of northern China during the Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty and the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (12th to 14th centuries).
* Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), the spoken standard of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China

## Biological species

* Mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), a sweet, orange lookalike
* Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), a perching duck species found in East Asia
* Mandarin dogfish, two species of small shark in the genus Cirrhigaleus off East Asian coast
* Mandarinfish (disambiguation), various fishes
* Mandarin vole (Lasiopodomys mandarinus), a species of vole found in China and the Korean Peninsula
* Spotted mandarin (disambiguation), various species

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* The Miraculous Mandarin, a one-act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók
* Mandarin (character), a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
** Wenwu, a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
** Trevor Slattery, a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
** Aldrich Killian (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a version of the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
* Mandarin (SRMTHFG), a character in the animated TV series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
* Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California, United States
* The Mandarin (website), an Australian online magazine
* MTV Mandarin, a 24-hour music channel owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific

### Novels

* The Mandarin (novel), an 1880 novel by the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós
* The Mandarins, 1954 novel by Simone de Beauvoir
* Mandarin (Elegant novel), a 1983 novel by Robert Elegant
* Mandarin (Havan novel), a 2008 novel by John Havan

## Clothing

* Mandarin gown or cheongsam, a Chinese style of dress
* Mandarin collar, a short shirt or jacket collar that is not folded from Qing era China
* Mandarin square, a badge worn by officials in Imperial China

## Companies

* Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines
* The Mandarin, former name of Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, a Hong Kong hotel
* Mandarin Films, a film production company of Hong Kong
* Mandarin Restaurant, an all-you-can-eat Chinese-Canadian buffet chain in Ontario, Canada
* Mandarin Software, a British software developer / publisher

## Other uses

* Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China (the original meaning of the word)
** by extension, any senior government bureaucrat
* Mandarin cuisine, another name for Beijing cuisine
* Mandarin (Jacksonville), a 19th-century community, since absorbed into the city limits of Jacksonville, United States
** Mandarin High School, a high school in the southern part of Jacksonville, Florida, United States
* Mandarin porcelain, a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America
* Mandarin paradox, an ethical parable